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Flowers of Zihuatanejo

Creeping Tick Trefoil

Grona triflora

-Plants (Kingdom Plantae)

-Vascular Plants (Phylum Tracheophyta)

-Flowering Plants (Subphylum Angiospermae)

-Dicots (Class Magnoliopsida)

-Legumes, Milkworts, and Allies (Order Fabales)

-Legumes (Family Fabaceae)

-Tribe Desmodieae

-Subtribe Desmodiinae

-Genus Grona

-Creeping Tick Trefoil (Grona triflora)


Grona triflora, known as creeping tick trefoil or three-flower beggarweed, is a plant in the family Fabaceae. Creeping tick trefoil has been utilized in traditional medicine. Conditions it has been used for include wounds, diarrhea, rheumatism, dysentery, and skin diseases. It has clover like leaves divided into 3 leaflets. It has tiny flowers ranging from reddish violet to light pink in colour.

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